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What protects your brain and your heart and lungs?
The breastbone (sternum) and the ribs are connected by cartilage to form the "thoracic cage" that covers the heart and lungs. It is not unusual for ribs to be fractured when using exterior compression on the heart, as is done in CPR.
How does the skeleton protect the heart?
the heart is situated just behind and slightly left of the breastbone, from this bone arises the ribs, the bones that go around the body trunk and defines the thorax. This anatomy is how the skeleton protects the heart.
What does a jaded heart mean?
A person with a jaded heart believes there is no such thing as love. They will use others for their own pleasure not caring how it may hurt the person.
What bones are around the heart?
The sternum, ribs 3-6 (3 on each side) and vertebra T 3-6 for a total of 10.
What is the bone called that covers your heart?
The ribs, and the Sternum.
What does it mean when different ribs hurt at different times at night like my ribs hurt really really bad but not all the time just sometimes and its not just the same rib its always different ribs?
There's something wrong with more than one of your ribs.
How does the backbone and ribs protect the body?
skull protects our delicate brain and protects it from getting hurt and rib cage protects our heart from being hurt
What does you laughed until your sides split mean?
It means that when you laught for so long that your ribs hurt.
What are the two main ribs covering the heart?
how many ribs that covering the heart
What if heart has no ribs to protect it?
we will die without ribs
What does your ribs potects?
your ribs potects your heart and your lunges.
Can alcohol make your ribs hurt?
No.
What does it mean if your ribs only hurt sometimes?
i don't know but my ribs hurt soooooo bad i hooope i get an answer too well if your ribs hurt when you run then that's what it felt like for my knees...then you have to go to orthopedics...that's where you do excercizes to help out your ribs or knees or anything that hurts. i did it and now the pain in my knees is gone, but when you stop orthropedics then you have to continue on with the excercized...and if it hurts really bad then you might'be pulled something by your ribs. and if it hurts through your ribs down to your hip then you probably definitely pulled a muscle, but anyways i think you should really go to a doctor.
What is the rib cage protects?
well the ribs protect the lungs and i think the heart.
What protects your brain and your heart and lungs?
The breastbone (sternum) and the ribs are connected by cartilage to form the "thoracic cage" that covers the heart and lungs. It is not unusual for ribs to be fractured when using exterior compression on the heart, as is done in CPR.
What bone protects your heart and where it is?
Answer:The sternum protects your heart=and its in the middle of your rib cage=
How do you use the word ribs in a sentence?
The broken hull exposed the shattered ribs of the grounded ship, lying askew in the shoals. My ribs hurt!
